The letters search in Hebrew was developed primarily to account for morphological separators between words and their prefixes and suffixes. This is not needed in Greek, though it might be useful for those looking at uncial fragments written without spaces. I think that wildcards would complicate it even further, but anything can be done if there is sufficient demand.

The letters search in Hebrew was developed primarily to account for morphological separators between words and their prefixes and suffixes. This is not needed in Greek, though it might be useful for those looking at uncial fragments written without spaces. I think that wildcards would complicate it even further, but anything can be done if there is sufficient demand.

The limits of wild cards makes some searches very difficult in accordance; especially when you already almost know the words you are looking for but not the location. I find that I am still going back to Bibleworks for these kinds of searches because they are so much easier in Bibleworks. Also when you are looking for examples where a letter may have been misread this can be very useful. For example if I were looking for roots ending in ח where the first root letter ד may have been misread for ר, I can create a search like this:

I am not sure what your search is looking for exactly. In Accordance I get no hits when I search for a lexical form starting with ד and ending in ח where the inflected form has a ר, and I don't see any in your screenshot.

I am not sure what your search is looking for exactly. In Accordance I get no hits when I search for a lexical form starting with ד and ending in ח where the inflected form has a ר, and I don't see any in your screenshot.

Note: This is just an example of the kinds of wild card searches that I can do in Bibleworks that I cannot do in Accordance, not a specific search needed at the moment. Additionally, I can extend these kinds of wildcard searches across multiple words. It would be nice to have an equivalent capability in Accordance. There are lots of places where this kind of search would be helpful.

This, which Daniel and I corresponded on months ago, sums up my agreement with Mike T. and Fabian (and BibleWorks' superior ability in this area, which I desperately want in Accordance):

Yes, in general, I'm most comfortable with the literal search (although I still don't like its inability to give me only what I want between the whitespaces, considering that it adds all manners of prefixes and suffixes that I may not want). But yes, literal search is generally what I prefer, because it seems to work most consistently between tagged and untagged texts.

What I'm asking for is essentially what Mike is asking for, and what is available in BibleWorks, which I also enjoy.

Also: It would be great to find word plays (e.g. Noah's name נח found חן - the letters are inverted). Can't find this kind of thing currently with Accordance. But there could be with letters and some wildcards or maybe some use of the construct search except instead of words, letters.